Hansshow Power Frunk: Tesla Model Y (2023) DIY Install

0:00in the front.

0:01Non-powered.

0:02I had it being held by a prop right there as you can see.

0:20What's up guys?

0:21It's your boy, John.

0:22it's back we're back again here with an awesome product for the Tesla Model Y, Hansshow Smart Your

0:27Vehicle Power Frunk in Power Trunk.

0:30So we're going to do a little unboxing.

0:33Alright.

0:34So we have a emergency release bag, these struts, those very high quality wires, again the

0:49strut again, very high quality, this is what goes into your car.

0:59Wiring harness pretty much intercepts the OEM signal, this right here is the mechanism that

1:07goes onto your OEM latch and pretty much gives it that soft close.

1:11So the strut brings it all the way down to like the very last inch, but then this

1:16kind of pulls it and then gets a nice and tucked in.

1:22So there's a little motor here and then we've got the brain of the unit.

1:28So this is labeled Model Y Frunk and it's supposed to be water resistant so that's

1:36not a great proposal.

1:40These rackets hold the power struts, got some zip ties, some 3M tape, and this is just the

1:49emergency release.

1:53So very cool, the parts aren't too bad, it's very simple.

1:58I've installed these power frunks before on a Model S, Model Y, it's going to

2:03be a new one for me but I also did it on the Model 3 and it's straight forward.

2:11Alright so we're going to be installing a front trunk, so we just have to go to the controls,

2:16pop the pop it, alright so we're in front of the front, let's open the front, non-powered

2:27to remove these, it's actually very simple, just some 10mm meters, first remove this,

2:32it's just held like this, and there's two inside the thing, I just like to leave the bolts,

2:44just so the whole thing comes out pretty easily, now there's a plug right here that you need

2:56to remove, and I forgot there's a plastic trim piece right here that holds the water

3:11reservoir for your windshield wipers, take that back out, voila the whole thing

3:20comes out, next off there are some more 10s, we have to remove the biodefense airfoam, alright

3:40so you do see the innards of everything here, you see that strut right there, that's why

3:47you need to remove, it's actually very far in the back, so it's this thing coming up

3:51here, there's a little ball joint, you can use a flat head or trim tool to remove,

3:59and that piece will come off, alright so this part is out and you can see

4:09originally this thing was attached to the top, this way I can demonstrate it a lot easier,

4:15I can show you guys, so boom, to remove the top you get like a flat head, in this case I used

4:24a knife so my flat head was just too big and then I put it through here, you just need to have it enough

4:33like this, so I kind of just twisted my wrist and then I smacked it with my other hand, so one hand

4:39I have it kind of like this, the other hand I go wham, and then it pops out because

4:45if you can see the inner side but when you do this it opens it up a little bit,

4:50see it, barely, I barely twisted it and it's enough for spew it, and it's enough for you to whack it,

4:54it comes out, this side you hit a 13mm, get loose, it's actually not that tight and then you start unscrewing it,

5:03that's it, this whole piece comes out, do it to the other side,

5:07before I do the other side, I have it being held by a prop right there, as you can see,

5:12you want to install this bracket, I want to install one side of the strut so it's more or less

5:17it's being held by something else, but R means right, but when you're in the driver's seat,

5:23right, not when you're facing the car, but when you're inside of it, so there's an R bracket, an L bracket,

5:29right, left, use this little hex thing, kind of go in there where the existing 13mm used to be,

5:37and you want to tighten it into spec, pretty simple, do it in that the same area,

5:43okay, that little bracket right there, let me see if I can get that focus for you guys,

5:50so it only goes, that's the, remember, that's the R bracket, and it's going on the passenger side,

5:57and it only fits in one way, but you can tell that's where the new struts are going to go,

6:03and it's gonna hold the top of this bad boy, they're gonna hook up the strut from that little ball socket

6:11all the way down there to the one that you removed over here, now, Hansshow provides excellent

6:24instruction, so now I'm just gonna slither this thing in, so let's see right there,

6:35so that's popped in, clipped, you'll hear like a satisfying click, and all the way in the bottom,

6:41that bracket you just mounted, it's also, clipped in there too, okay, after you install both the

6:53struts facing down, it has enough force to hold the hood by itself, next thing we want to tackle

7:02is this electronic trunk, frunk system, there's going to be two 10s right here,

7:10so one, two, remove those, and we'll move forward, the next thing you want to do is remove the original

7:20blocking block spring, and then we have to install the small bracket for the electronic

7:25and the side will face outwards, so you should have something like

7:49that one goes right behind it, and it kinda hooks up to this hook right here.

7:56And that's it, so you have this little black hook, hooks right here, you put the original

8:01spring back, everything is locked down, and you should be able to kind of just mount it

8:06to its OG spot and we should be set. Now, it's a matter of installing it,

8:16in... in reverse, this bad boy back here, all right, so I'm just gonna go one by one of everything

8:35that's plugged in, I think this is gonna be a lot easier doing about one by one by one,

8:38so I'm just gonna go everything at once, first thing you need to plug in are the struts,

8:42so there are two wires that every strut has, boom boom, same with this one, boom boom,

8:48the next one is the red, the power, the b plus, you hook it up there, I have it screwed on

8:55here, now it depends if you have a lithium ion like me, 2023, or you have the older lead acid

9:01battery, so if you have a lithium that's how you're gonna mount it, now if you have red,

9:06then where's the black, the next thing off we have is the ground, so take a 10 millimeter,

9:11unscrew it, put the ground in your set, followed by this little machine right here,

9:18this is gonna be the D5 plug, it's gonna be a little thicker plug

9:20this plugs into the soft closing motor, then we have D2 which is a little speaker and we're already

9:33halfway done with all the plugs, next off let's go to more of the lever situation, now as you can see

9:39here there's gonna be a plug right plug in and you're gonna daisy chain the main control box,

9:48into here, so there's one plug, next off again another daisy chain, this is gonna

9:54gonna be the OEM one, then you have to unplug and then daisy chain, lastly there is this wire,

10:03not this is this, it's only little unit that goes right here, those are all the plugs,

10:09as you can see I have the little switch right here, this is just from the trunk liner

10:14so you can get power so you can test it, now after everything is, you can wrap

10:19wrap it up, clean it up, make it look nice and pretty, but just as a test you can press a button

10:27and you can see it goes down, now you can change the speed of this based off of, as you can see

10:36I have it on wicked-fast, but you can change the speed using this white, this little button right

10:43here, hold it down, when you hold it down, if it beats six times that's super fast, five

11:19but when you open it up it kind of shoots right up, which is great,

11:24so you pretty much want to tidy everything up from here, I do have a safety switch

11:29that I wired and it goes to the toe hook, so there's gonna be a little safety pool you can

11:34have for the toe hook, but yeah let's mount it, make it will make it look pretty, all right

11:43so after I mounted everything, I mounted the soft closing latch right here, you can see the little x

11:51pretty much just use zip ties to hold it on this metal rail and then for the computer

11:59I have it all the way back here, so it shouldn't interfere with the big old air box

12:05and I have it

12:09I did zip tie some wires just to clean it up, this extra wire here is for that plug for the

12:15frunk, but overall it looks great, happy with the results and just gonna put all

12:21the panels back I should be ready to go, all right so that

12:34that concludes the install for the Hansshow power frunk, now it's been amazing from the install to

12:41the way it works, I haven't had any issues which is just really nice, now I've been

12:45installing power frunks since the model s3 and all of that, this one has I didn't need to do

12:52any adjustments it just works right out the gate and it's

13:16continue to iterate through their versions and I think it gets better and better

13:21I know these brackets are a little bit different, so they make little small tweaks to

13:24make it more reliable and just just better, now I guess if you guys were interested in the

13:29power frunk I'll leave a little link in the description, it's Hansshow's website and also

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13:52channel so I really do appreciate it if you guys will do that but uh yeah my favorite mod is now

13:59in the car so that's perfect thank you guys for watching I'll catch you guys in the next

14:03model y video see ya